Baby Brode!

I know I need to stay updated, but it sure has been crazy!

The days are ok, there are visitors here and there but Brode continues to sleep.

The nights... not so much. He for sure has days and nights mixed up. He insists on staying awake between diapers and feedings. Today is his first doctors appointment so we're going to ask lots of questions and see if there is any way we can make him more comfortable! He also had his first sponge bath from daddy and I last night, that was quite the experience.

Besides the extremely long nights he is as adorable as can be! He has a lot of his daddy in him!

Matt and I are doing well. Extremely tired, but hanging in there.

Everyone asks why there are pictures of everyone else and Brode and none of mommy and baby... so here is one even though its not the most attractive.


More pictures to come later! I need to get ahold of grandpas camera!

Come and Gone

Well my due date has come and gone. 4 days past and it's all still the same as 2 weeks ago. We decided today if nothing happens tomorrow or Thursday I'm going in Friday morning to get things started. That seems like a long time to wait (when I'm this bored), but yet so close knowing this weekend I'll have a son! She said Friday at dinner time we should have a little boy in our arms!

I'm nervous and scared beyond all belief but overly excited all at the same time!

We will be sure to get pictures up as soon as we get home and things settle down!

Waiting time!

14 days... 2 weeks... it seems so long, yet so close! It seems crazy that I could have a little boy any day! His room got the final finishing touches the past couple days so we're all ready to go! I don't have much else to write about so I'll just put a couple pictures up from random summer events and be on my way!

So all you LaCrosse girls that got the tour a couple weeks ago probably remember this room a mess (one of the longer stops on the tour), but its my new room now:

I dont know how much I like it yet, its a lot smaller than my old room, but I dont think Brode would have liked the nasty red walls, and I do terribly miss my big down comforter.... but it'll do!

This is my wonderful M that I made! Now that all of the baby stuff is done and my green frog didn't match the new room, I took on a junk drawer art project! The collage consists of random things throughout my life that wont serve any purpose now besides artwork above my bed... but Daddy still needs to hang it up for me! It was somewhat sad to make it knowing that everything is over and all those great memories are long gone... but lots of new ones to come!

Next room: Brode's!! I know you've all by dying to see it, along with come over and help organize it! I thought it was going to take forever to get all 3 rooms done, but it only took 3 days to have them all complete! We just need to get the rocking chair from the basement and we're all set for the little guy!....

There is even a bed for Matthew so I can get some sleep in my own room! Yay!

After all this cleaning and hard work my parents decided they'd reward themselves... so this just showed up at our house one day:

I had to find a picture online because it's NEVER home... they love it too much and drive it everywhere! Gotta love it though... no more mom mini-van!

Libby (right) got to visit her sister Annie a few times this summer, but they dont like each other, hence the extremely forced picture! They were great troopers though because Claire and I loved it!

Libby also had her 7th birthday. I wrapper her present... she found it and wouldnt give up on getting it early....

The only other summer happenings that have pictures are the baby shower and camping... but I am not able to get them on here... so thats about all ive got for now! We'll just have to wait until Brode to get another update and more pictures!

Have a great weekend!

LaCrosse

It doesn't seem real that I would be moving back to LaCrosse today! I have to officially withdraw today, making me an Eagle no more. I didn't think I would miss it as much as I do. Hopefully I'll be able to visit and stay with the girls sooner than later.

Going back there is all I can think about it, when I have about 500 other things I SHOULD be thinking about.

I'm dying to put pictures up, but I want to get them all at once of the summer. I'm also just waiting on the bedding for Brode's room and then I can put a few pictures up so all you girls dying to see it can....

Have a great labor day weekend!

Baby Shower Weekend

So yesterday was my baby shower with the girls from my side of the family and all of my wonderful friends. It was so great to see everyone again and see people that I haven't seen all summer! There wasn't too much to do, but I hope everyone had a little bit of fun at some point.

All the gifts are AMAZING. There is WAY more than i could ever imagine over-flowing the living room right now. Everything helps SO much and all the outfits will be sure to make him extremely adorable. I also have to admit that all the toys are very fun and I'll have my fair share of playing with them. Today will consist of thank you notes and organizing everything. Im thinking I'll take a break and continue the new purse search.

That is about it for now, Thank you to everyone that came yesterday and to all the LaCrosse girls that made their long trips here!

The rest of my life

I feel like today previewed the rest of my life. I pulled out my little planner that I live my life off of now (it fits in my purse better than that whiteboard calender that Im so madly in love with!), made my list of a million things to do... then ran a million errands, spent a little too much time in the grocery store, did 5 loads of laundry for Matthew, wrapped lots of prizes/presents, went to the doctors (which showed that everything looked good, we're both incredibly healthy and she was impressed with how well im moving and how much energy I have!), baked muffins, took a little coffee break... then when that wasn't enough I hauled my 3 tubs of clothes, groceries and other random things over to Matthew's and cleaned his house. The coffee date with some girls tonight should be just the nice relaxing thing I need.... so much for a day off of work. I feel like such a little responsible mom, and I dont even have to carry a little boy around with me yet!

I turned in my last day of work yesterday, the paychecks are extremely nice but it's starting to sink in that I only have 4 weeks and Brode's crib is still in a million pieces on the floor. We decided to switch the entire house so that I get the blood red walls and the light blue and light green in my room will be Brode's nursery. This means I have 3 weeks after work to clean out the basement so that I can clean out the guest room and move it downstairs, clean my room and move it to the guest room, and then set up Brode's entire room. Oh my goodness. Let me just take the time to encourage people to never have an august/september baby, and for those of you that are apologize to your mothers because this heat is NOT fun!

4 days until the shower... which only means 3 until all the LaCrosse girls are here! Ohhhh boy.

Have a wonderful end of the week!

Here we go...

Alright, the start of something new. Everything going on right now seems very new, but this way I can keep you all informed of all the crazy things going on. I won't have much to write about if the last few weeks of summer are as boring as the first couple of months, but hopefully something will come up.
My real goal is to get this all figured out and get good at it by the time our little boy arrives so that all his wonderful friends away at school all over the state can stay informed and see all the firsts, along with sharing in mine and Matt's new experiences.

I'm being tormented by counting down the days until baby showers while all I want to do is shop for cute baby things. Not shopping until I know what we need is tough some days when I have nothing to do. Along with counting down the actual shower I am extremely excited for the girls from LaCrosse to make their travels here so that we can all be together again!

That's about it for now and for a while... hopefully a recap of summer pictures will be posted soon.